Forsytism

The history of the Forsytes becomes the history of the forsyteism as social phenomena.
F.s are described as the better half of the English society. Their wealth and security makes everything possible, makes the world go round. Without them any sphere of life can’t function properly. Neither religion nor art can exist without their participation or ,to be precise, without their investment. But at the same time F.s and art are incompatible. None of F.s ever created anything. The only things they can do is to own. Even when some of F.s tries to become an ‘artist’ it turns out to be either a failure or an artist with prevailing features of F. which prevent them from giving themselves away to the business.

For G. the genuine F. ss not the one who has this surname but the one whose life spins around property and possession only. F. can be recognized by the extreme sense of property. He knows a good thing, a safe thing, he looks at the things practically. F. never wastes energy in vain, he never gives himself up to anything and that’s a real sense of property - to look at everything rationally and to be self- seeking.

To sum it up, we should say that the tenacity in life, sense of property of any F. of that society is striking and it doesn’t matter whether its about wives, husbands, houses, money or any minor thing. Probably, that’s what helps them survive and that’s what ruins their